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Techonomy 14
This year Techonomy moves to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, November 9-11, on the cliffs south of San Francisco, near Silicon Valley.
We’ll explore how technology transforms and accelerates progress for both business and society. Techonomy isn’t a tech conference; we’re interested in how technology transforms everything else. The world is facing myriad and urgent challenges, and we aim to help people better understand how tech can address them.
Techonomy 14
This year Techonomy moves to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, November 9-11, on the cliffs south of San Francisco, near Silicon Valley.
We’ll explore how technology transforms and accelerates progress for both business and society. Techonomy isn’t a tech conference; we’re interested in how technology transforms everything else. The world is facing myriad and urgent challenges, and we aim to help people better understand how tech can address them.
Our program focuses a lot on business, because so much of society’s transformative energy is concentrated there. Businesses must aggressively and consciously harness the power of tech, while simultaneously partnering with governments, civil society, and increasingly, empowered citizens. As the tools of progress shift, individuals and institutions must rethink how they adapt and contribute.
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180° Shift: Connect, Collaborate, Close the Skills Gap" />
180° Shift: How to Fix U.S. Politics" />
180° Shift: Infrastructure on a Roll" />
180° Shift: Mapping the Policy Genome" />
180° Shift: Owning Your Identity" />
180° Shift: Rare Unlocks the Common" />
180° Shift: The Bright Future of Illumination" />
180° Shift: The End of Reality as You Know It" />
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with Marc Benioff
November 11, 2014
Kirkpatrick: Marc Benioff is our closing guest, somebody who I’ve known for a fairly long time. Long enough that he didn’t have any hesitation, somewhat like Weiner only more so, yesterday, telling me how I need to conduct the interview. Not asking me how I thought I should—but he did sort of ask me that, but then he told me. So he wanted me to put my questions away, because I know him too well to have anything written down, which is fair enough. And I was telling Marc that— Benioff: And the one person you didn’t thank was yourself, so how about giving David a round of applause for putting together a great conference? [APPLAUSE] Kirkpatrick: Well, you know, I appreciate that, Marc, and I said in one of the things I wrote in advance of the conference that it was kind of apt to end with you, because you’ve been so supportive of Techonomy from the beginning and given me some extremely good advice on a number of occasions. And I guess maybe that’s something I wouldn’t mind, not talking about that exactly, but you have really always seemed to understand why we wanted to do Techonomy, which was to advance the collective understanding of business in particular, but government— Benioff: I didn’t really understand until you told me backstage why we do this. Kirkpatrick: Oh you did too! But anyway—that is why we do this. I mean, we’re not a tech conference. We’re trying to be a conference, as we like to say,...
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with Marc Benioff
Ethics + Responsibility
A Conversation With Fadi Chehadé
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with Stripe’s Patrick Collison
Business + Innovation
From Genius to Table: Organic Innovation
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with David Marcus
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with Jeff Weiner
Business + Innovation
Following the Brain Map
Business + Innovation
Innovating Our Selves
Business + Innovation
Man, Machines, and How the Future Works: Markoff, Jurvetson, Rosenworcel, Washington
Business + Innovation
Navigating China’s Internet Maze
Business + Innovation
The New Geology of Intelligence
Business + Innovation
The Next Revolution Will Be Biologized
Business + Innovation
Things United on a Global Platform: The New Distributed Intelligence
Business + Innovation
Reid Hoffman & Peter Thiel: Future Revolutions
Business + Innovation
Jaron Lanier on Who Owns the Future?
Business + Innovation
Ray Ozzie & Scott Cook: A Future Without Industries
Business + Innovation
Just Make It: The Evolution of Manufacturing
Business + Innovation
Will Every Industry Have its Tesla?
Business + Innovation
Jack Dorsey et al: Can Tech Bring Equality and Peace?
Finance + Crypto
Civil Defense Against Data Assaults
Business + Innovation
Confronting the Internet Counter-Reaction
Government + Policy
How Good Can Technology Make Our Governments and Communities?
Business + Innovation
How to Meet the World’s Grand Challenges
Business + Innovation
Rethinking International Development: Big Ideas from the Invention Generation
Business + Innovation
“The Internet Is Not the Answer”
Business + Innovation
Faith in Data or Faith in the Crowd?
Business + Innovation
Mobile Omnipotence: New Nomads Challenge Business and Reshape Society
Business + Innovation
Citi, Coke, IdeaLab: Preemptive Innovation
Business + Innovation
The Federation: Tactical Evolution or Management Revolution?
180° Shift: (bio)Hacking Startups" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: (bio)Hacking Startups
180° Shift: Connect, Collaborate, Close the Skills Gap" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: Connect, Collaborate, Close the Skills Gap
180° Shift: How to Fix U.S. Politics" />
Ethics + Responsibility
180° Shift: How to Fix U.S. Politics
180° Shift: Infrastructure on a Roll" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: Infrastructure on a Roll
180° Shift: Mapping the Policy Genome" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: Mapping the Policy Genome
180° Shift: Owning Your Identity" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: Owning Your Identity
180° Shift: Rare Unlocks the Common" />
Government + Policy
180° Shift: Rare Unlocks the Common
180° Shift: The Bright Future of Illumination" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: The Bright Future of Illumination
180° Shift: The End of Reality as You Know It" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: The End of Reality as You Know It
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with Marc Benioff
November 11, 2014
Kirkpatrick: Marc Benioff is our closing guest, somebody who I’ve known for a fairly long time. Long enough that he didn’t have any hesitation, somewhat like Weiner only more so, yesterday, telling me how I need to conduct the interview. Not asking me how I thought I should—but he did sort of ask me that, but then he told me. So he wanted me to put my questions away, because I know him too well to have anything written down, which is fair enough. And I was telling Marc that— Benioff: And the one person you didn’t thank was yourself, so how about giving David a round of applause for putting together a great conference? [APPLAUSE] Kirkpatrick: Well, you know, I appreciate that, Marc, and I said in one of the things I wrote in advance of the conference that it was kind of apt to end with you, because you’ve been so supportive of Techonomy from the beginning and given me some extremely good advice on a number of occasions. And I guess maybe that’s something I wouldn’t mind, not talking about that exactly, but you have really always seemed to understand why we wanted to do Techonomy, which was to advance the collective understanding of business in particular, but government— Benioff: I didn’t really understand until you told me backstage why we do this. Kirkpatrick: Oh you did too! But anyway—that is why we do this. I mean, we’re not a tech conference. We’re trying to be a conference, as we like to say,...
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Business + Innovation
A Conversation with Marc Benioff
Ethics + Responsibility
A Conversation With Fadi Chehadé
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with Stripe’s Patrick Collison
Business + Innovation
From Genius to Table: Organic Innovation
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with David Marcus
Business + Innovation
A Conversation with Jeff Weiner
Business + Innovation
Following the Brain Map
Business + Innovation
Innovating Our Selves
Business + Innovation
Man, Machines, and How the Future Works: Markoff, Jurvetson, Rosenworcel, Washington
Business + Innovation
Navigating China’s Internet Maze
Business + Innovation
The New Geology of Intelligence
Business + Innovation
The Next Revolution Will Be Biologized
Business + Innovation
Things United on a Global Platform: The New Distributed Intelligence
Business + Innovation
Reid Hoffman & Peter Thiel: Future Revolutions
Business + Innovation
Jaron Lanier on Who Owns the Future?
Business + Innovation
Ray Ozzie & Scott Cook: A Future Without Industries
Business + Innovation
Just Make It: The Evolution of Manufacturing
Business + Innovation
Will Every Industry Have its Tesla?
Business + Innovation
Jack Dorsey et al: Can Tech Bring Equality and Peace?
Finance + Crypto
Civil Defense Against Data Assaults
Business + Innovation
Confronting the Internet Counter-Reaction
Government + Policy
How Good Can Technology Make Our Governments and Communities?
Business + Innovation
How to Meet the World’s Grand Challenges
Business + Innovation
Rethinking International Development: Big Ideas from the Invention Generation
Business + Innovation
“The Internet Is Not the Answer”
Business + Innovation
Faith in Data or Faith in the Crowd?
Business + Innovation
Mobile Omnipotence: New Nomads Challenge Business and Reshape Society
Business + Innovation
Citi, Coke, IdeaLab: Preemptive Innovation
Business + Innovation
The Federation: Tactical Evolution or Management Revolution?
180° Shift: (bio)Hacking Startups" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: (bio)Hacking Startups
180° Shift: Connect, Collaborate, Close the Skills Gap" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: Connect, Collaborate, Close the Skills Gap
180° Shift: How to Fix U.S. Politics" />
Ethics + Responsibility
180° Shift: How to Fix U.S. Politics
180° Shift: Infrastructure on a Roll" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: Infrastructure on a Roll
180° Shift: Mapping the Policy Genome" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: Mapping the Policy Genome
180° Shift: Owning Your Identity" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: Owning Your Identity
180° Shift: Rare Unlocks the Common" />
Government + Policy
180° Shift: Rare Unlocks the Common
180° Shift: The Bright Future of Illumination" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: The Bright Future of Illumination
180° Shift: The End of Reality as You Know It" />
Business + Innovation
180° Shift: The End of Reality as You Know It
Agenda
10:00 am
Registration Desk Opens
12:30 - 3:00 pm
Activities
Purisima Creek Redwood Preserve Hike hosted by Castlight Health
Coastal Bike Ride with Oympians hosted by Glo Science, SHO-AIR International, and TWENTY16
Golf Clinic on the Old Course at Half Moon Bay
4:00 - 4:10 pm
Welcome to TE14
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
4:10 - 4:35 pm
Fusion
Bringing together great ideas and pressing concerns to fuel TE14 and power its conversations. A troop of Techonomists ignite our discussions.
4:35 - 5:05 pm
Two Friends on Innovation, Obstacles, and Future Revolutions
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder, LinkedIn
Peter Thiel
Investor and Entrepreneur, Thiel Capital
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
5:05 - 5:45 pm
The Next Revolution Will Be Biologized
Drew Endy
Associate Professor, Bioengineering, Stanford University
Brian Frezza
Co-founder and Co-CEO, Emerald Therapeutics
Floyd Romesberg
Associate Professor, Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute
Marcus Wohlsen
Staff Writer, WIRED
5:45 - 5:50 pm
180º Shifts
180 seconds to turn 180 degrees. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
“The Science of Diversity”
Laura Mather
Founder and CEO, Unitive
5:50 - 6:10 pm
A Conversation with Patrick Collison
Remaking online payments.
Patrick Collison
Co-founder and CEO, Stripe
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
6:15 - 7:00 pm
Reception
Hosted by Ericsson
7:15 - 8:30 pm
Dinner
Hosted by EMC
8:45 pm
Can Tech Bring Equality and Peace?
Genevieve Bell
Vice President and Intel Fellow, Intel Labs
David Miliband
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
Nandan Nilekani
Former Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
James Surowiecki
Staff Writer, The New Yorker
7:00 am
Registration Desk Opens
7:00 - 8:00 am
Activities
Sunrise Yoga hosted by Castlight Health
Coastal Bike Ride
7:00 - 8:15 am
General Breakfast
A Scrum on the Future of Media
Michael J. Wolf
Founder + CEO, Activate Consulting
Welcome
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
A Future Without Industries
Giovanni Colella
Co-founder and CEO, Castlight Health
Scott Cook
Founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit Inc.
Ray Ozzie
Founder and CEO, Talko Inc.
Eric Kutcher
Managing Director, U.S. Western Region, McKinsey & Company
9:10 - 9:15 am
180º Shifts
180 seconds to turn 180 degrees. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
“Infrastructure on a Roll”
Curren Krasnoff
Founder and CEO, Cortex Composites
“When Local Means Your Kitchen”
Gabe Blanchet
Co-founder and CEO, Grove Labs
9:15 - 9:30 am
A Conversation with Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO, ICANN
Barton Gellman
Senior Fellow, Author and Journalist, The Century Foundation
9:30 - 10:05 am
Rethinking International Development: Big Ideas from the Invention Generation
Bonolo Matjila
Co-founder, Spiruteens
Leroy Mwasaru
Founder, Human Waste Bioreactor
David Moinina Sengeh
President and Co-Founder, Global Minimum Inc.
10:05 - 10:15 am
180º Shifts
180 seconds to turn 180 degrees. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
“Rare Unlocks the Common”
Matt Wilsey
President, Grace Wilsey Foundation
“Mapping the Policy Genome”
Marci Harris
Chief Executive Officer, POPVOX
10:15 - 10:40 am
The Federation: Tactical Evolution or Management Revolution?
Pat Gelsinger
Chief Executive Officer, VMware, Inc.
David Goulden
CEO, EMC Information Infrastructure, EMC Corporation
Paul Maritz
Chief Executive Officer, Pivotal Software, Inc.
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
10:40 - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 - 12:00 pm
Techonomy Labs
Faith in Data or Faith in the Crowd?
Adam Kocoloski
IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Information Management, IBM
Balaji Prabhakar
Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Urban Engines
James Surowiecki
Staff Writer, The New Yorker
Dave Morgan
Chief Executive Officer, Simulmedia, Inc.
Civil Defense Against Data Assaults
Michelle Finneran Dennedy
Vice President, Chief Privacy Officer, McAfee, a division of Intel Security
Jeremiah Grossman
Founder and Interim CEO, WhiteHat Security, Inc.
Amit Mital
Chief Technology Officer, EVP, GM IoT & Mobility, Symantec
Erin Nealy Cox
Executive Managing Director, Stroz Friedberg
Todd Simpson
Chief Strategy Officer, AVG Technologies
Laura Mather
Founder and CEO, Unitive
How Good Can Technology Make Our Governments and Communities?
Marci Harris
Chief Executive Officer, POPVOX
Jerry Paffendorf
Chief Executive Officer, LOVELAND Technologies
Kathryn Peters
Co-founder and COO, Democracy Works
Matt Stempeck
Director of Civic Technology, Microsoft New York City
Navigating China’s Internet Maze
Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Professor of Strategy and Innovation, IMD Business School
Gary Rieschel
Founding Managing Partner, Qiming Venture Partners
Zachary Karabell
Founder, The Progress Network
Mobile Omnipotence: How the New Nomads Challenge Business and Reshape Society
Hans Peter Brøndmo
Vice President, Head of Everyday Adventure, HERE, a Nokia business
Ilya Fushman
Head of Product, Dropbox
David Helgason
Co-founder and Executive Vice President, Unity Technologies
Jack Krawczyk
Director of Product Management, Pandora
Tom Gardner
Co-founder and CEO, The Motley Fool
12:00 - 12:15 pm
Switch Break
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Lunch
Hosted by Ford
1:15 - 1:30 pm
Switch Break
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Techonomy Labs
Will Every Industry Have its Tesla?
Ali Diab
Co-founder and CEO, Collective Health
Dane Howard
Director, Global Brand Experience, eBay Inc.
Scott Sanborn
Chief Operations Officer, LendingClub
Jake Seid
Managing Director, Stone Bridge Ventures
The New Geology of Intelligence
Richard Levin
Chief Executive Officer, Coursera
Ijad Madisch
Co-founder and CEO, ResearchGate
Dr. Anthony W. Marx
President, The New York Public Library
Rohini Nilekani
Chairperson, Arghyam
David Callaway
Founder + Editor, Callaway Climate Insights
Things United on a Global Platform: The New Distributed Intelligence
Prith Banerjee
Managing Director of Global Technology R&D, Accenture
Kelly Liang
Senior Vice President of Business Development, SmartThings
Charles Meyers
Chief Operating Officer, Equinix, Inc.
Zachary Karabell
Founder, The Progress Network
Confronting the Internet Counter-Reaction
Barton Gellman
Senior Fellow, Author and Journalist, The Century Foundation
Theresa Swinehart
Senior Advisor to the President on Global Strategy, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Constantijn Van Oranje-Nassau
Head of Cabinet, Cabinet of Vice-President Neelie Kroes, European Commission
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
Former Minister of Defense, Germany
Andrew Keen
Author, "The Internet Is Not the Answer", Digital Vertigo
Innovating Our Selves
Eri Gentry
Technology Horizons Research Manager, Institute for the Future
Marcus Wohlsen
Staff Writer, WIRED
2:30 - 2:45 pm
Switch Break
2:45 - 2:55 pm
Welcome Back
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
2:55 - 3:05 pm
From Genius to Table: Organic Innovation
With Michael Fertik, Expert on Femto-Management (also CEO of Reputation.com)
3:05 - 3:45 pm
Preemptive Innovation
Bill Gross
Founder and CEO, Idealab
Deborah Hopkins
Chief Innovation Officer, Citi
Michael Chui
Partner, McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company
- 3:50 pm
3:50 - 4:20 pm
180º Shifts
180 seconds to turn 180 degrees. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
“Connect, Collaborate, Close the Skills Gap”
Jacqueline Jones
Executive Director, Strategy Partnerships and Innovation, Kaplan Higher Education Group
“How to Fix U.S. Politics”
David Burstein
Founder and CEO, Run for America
4:25 - 4:45 pm
A Conversation with Jeff Weiner
Jeff Weiner
Chief Executive Officer, LinkedIn Corporation
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
4:45 - 5:30 pm
How to Meet the World’s Grand Challenges
Larry Brilliant
Founder + CEO, Pandefense Advisory
Geno Germano
Group President, Global Innovative Pharma Business, Pfizer Inc
Leila Janah
Founder and CEO, Sama Group
Rima Qureshi
SVP, Chief Strategy Officer and Head of M&A, Ericsson
Matthew Bishop
Globalisation Editor/Philanthrocapitalism Author, The Economist
5:30 - 6:15 pm
Break
6:15 - 7:00 pm
Reception
7:15 - 8:30 pm
Dinner
Hosted by Citi Ventures
8:45 pm
Evening Program
Joe King and Isaac Slade of The Fray.
Jon Healey
Editorial Writer and Blogger, Los Angeles Times
7:00 am
Registration Desk Opens
7:00 - 8:00 am
Activity
Sunrise Yoga hosted by Castlight Health
7:30 - 8:45 am
General Breakfast
Breakfast Sessions
Information Generation
Hosted by the Institute for the Future and EMC
Mike Liebhold
Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future
Rachel Maguire
Research Director, Health Horizons Program, Institute for the Future
Internet Governance: Of, By and For the World?
In association with the World Economic Forum
Prith Banerjee
Managing Director of Global Technology R&D, Accenture
Dan’l Lewin
Board Advisor
Ken Washington
SVP, and Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Medtronic
8:45 - 9:00 am
Switch Break
9:00 - 9:05 am
Welcome
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
9:05 - 9:35 am
Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier
Scientist, Musician, Visual Artist, Author of Who Owns the Future?
9:35 - 9:45 am
180º Shifts
180 seconds to turn 180 degrees. Reimagine. Reconsider. Rethink.
"Owning Your Identity"
Stan Stalnaker
Founding Director, Hub Culture
“The Bright Future of Illumination”
Colleen Costello
Co-founder and CEO, Vital Vio
“What Will We Remember?”
Oren Boiman
Co-founder and CEO, Magisto
9:45 - 10:00 am
10:00 - 10:25 am
A Conversation with David Marcus
David Marcus
Vice President of Messaging Products, Facebook, Inc.
Emily Chang
Anchor and Executive Producer of “Bloomberg Technology”, Bloomberg Television
10:25 - 10:35 am
The Internet Is Not the Answer
Andrew Keen
Author, "The Internet Is Not the Answer", Digital Vertigo
10:35 - 11:20 am
Man, Machines and How the Future Works
Steve Jurvetson
Partner, DFJ
Ken Washington
SVP, and Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Medtronic
Philip Zelikow
Visiting Managing Director, Markle Foundation
John Markoff
Senior Writer, The New York Times
11:20 - 11:55 am
A Conversation with Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff
Chairman and CEO, Salesforce
David Kirkpatrick
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Techonomy
12:00 pm
Conference Adjourns
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